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Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin


You might also want to check your firewall settings. Firewalls tend
to get real touchy when the signatures for binary files change.

Scott

Jon TURNEY wrote:
> jose isaias cabrera wrote:
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I just ran setup and upgraded to the new cygwin and something has
>> broke.  I was able to run this command before,
>>
>> xwin :0.0 -clipboard -query 13.142.6.222 -fp tcp/13.142.6.222:7100
> 
> I'm a bit suspicious of this command line as the server is called "XWin"
> 
>> and I would get the login screen of the Solaris 10 XServer and I was
>> able to login.  Now, I get the login screen, but when try to enter the
>> login ID, when I type the first letter, the login screen refreshes and I
>> can never enter login id.  I have another cygwin setup that I have not
>> updated and that one works great.  Any ideas?  No XWin.log gets
>> created.  Nothing gets written on the cygwin DOS screen neither.
> 
> Are you looking for XWin.log in /var/log ?
> 
> If you open a cygwin bash shell, type the command to run the X server, you get
> no output at all?
> 
> If you add -once to the command used to launch the server, does it exit after
> your first connection attempt? (if so, this tells me that the XDM or whatever
> you are trying to log in to is closing the connection when you type, for it's
> own reasons, or maybe it just doesn't like us anymore...)
> 
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